At the end of the day, cultural appropriation is still evident

My response to Globe and Mail article below

 

"School board urges end to native-themed mascots

'Mock Indian' symbols trivialize aboriginal culture, Vancouver trustee says" from article at link below http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/school-board-urges-end-to-native-themed-mascots/article1469260/

At the end of the day, cultural appropriation is still evident, as the sound and images in the popular cultural realm of film, television, and sports is inundated with the constant references of idiomatic expressions from the dime novel days of the Modernist period.

`...Bit the dust,...the only good injun is a dead injun,... watch your back,.....once you leave the reservation, there is no turning back...`` etc etc.

I have heard these expressions more than once in my lifetime, and with a bit of research you will see how these expressions came to stay in the North American Lexicon library. To change the stereotyping, the cultural norms of two centuries is going to take more than school board recommendations and passage of levies or school board orders, it is going to take two to three generations of re-educating of the ruling classes children, and the restructuring of the educational, cultural, and political apparatuses of North America and any euro-colonial country affected by colonialism. It is going to take a re-education of the masses who strive on the sports competitions, and the audience participation jingles. It is going to take time and the disruption of sported related industries and the elimination of mascot related sports games and themes. It is going to take a total elimination of two centuries of colonial history and the re-education of the masses. Regardless of the rebuttals against changing the mascot's image or name, these moronic culture opinionators will never see beyond their point of view because of how invisible, the notion of ingrained systemic racism is embedded in the subconscious realm of popular culture literacy and how one sees what is normal or a way of life in this world. Not until we have a total disruption of the North American way of life will we see change or have an understanding of the old world view of colonialism and all its entrapments and entitlements.